For the characterization of the decomposition of peasant economy by individual regions of the country, Lenin uses numerous statistical collections of zemstvo administrations.

For Nizhny Novgorod Province, such sources are zemstvo collections for three districts. In the seventh paragraph of the second chapter of "The Development of Capitalism in Russia," Lenin analyzes "Materials for the Assessment of Lands of Nizhny Novgorod Province," issues IV, IX, and XII (Knyagininsky, Vasilsky, and Makarievsky districts). The remarks by Lenin below on these three statistical collections for Nizhny Novgorod Province constitute preparatory material for the indicated paragraph of "The Development of Capitalism in Russia" (Works, vol. III, pp. 84—87).

MATERIALS FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF LANDS OF 
NIZHNY NOVGOROD PROVINCE.
ECONOMIC SECTION. — ISSUE IV. KNYAGININSKY 
DISTRICT. — NIZHNY NOVGOROD 1888

...The average price of 1 pud of dry rye given by these sources amounts to 62 kopecks...

1. In Table 1 (a and b) certain totals (by volosts, districts, and categories of peasants) are presented with the exception or inclusion of the village of Bolshoe Murashkino and the hamlet of Kamkina. This is done because B. Murashkino is a village exclusively engaged in handicraft industries...

Village of Bolshoe Murashkino (see Table II and following)
856 households (registered) — 3,473 souls of both sexes — 839 workers
640 households with local earnings, 37 households with migratory earnings
782 male workers with local earnings, 43 male workers with migratory earnings
Total households with earnings — 668
581 horseless households (from allotments)
Number of householders with commercial-industrial enterprises — 39
Renting out allotments entirely — 664
partly —
Renting land — 3 households
sowing — 47 desyatins
853 households have no sowing

a quarter consequently = 
= 4 r. 68 kop.

[Tables follow with data organized as follows:]

Group of 
households

A. Living in 
their own 
village

I. With 4 and more 
horses
II. With 3 
horses
III. With 2 horses
IV. With 1 
horse
V. Without 
horse
Total (I—V)

Population 
of both sexes

5,778
14,746
28,659
24,503
22,711
96,397

Number of 
households with 
hired 
workers

1,809
4,503
4,852
5,785
17,522

[Additional columns showing land distribution data across allotment land, rented land, purchased land, etc., with corresponding desyatin measurements]

[The tables continue with detailed land use statistics for each household category, including arable land (ozimoy/winter crops and yarovoy/spring crops), meadowland, and various categories of rented and purchased land]

Total land 
utilization by 
groups
(allotment land 
+ rented 
purchased — 
rented out)

20,233
38,837
63,452
44,519
27,783
194,824

NB p. XLVI: 
excluding 
village of B. Murashkino

[See note above p. 133. Ed.]